Washing-machine



` walls of the body, is the lid or cover 8.

STATES PETER PETRI, or PEoRIA, ILLINOIS.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,921, dated May 10, 1898.

Application filed March 22, 1897. Serial No. 628,641. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may-concern:

Be it known that I, PETER PETRI, of Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Iniprovements in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in washing-machines; and the object of the same is to provide an improved construction of washing-machine in which the desired result is accomplished in the most effectual manner.

The invention consists in the details of construction hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved washing-machine; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, the reciprocating rubber, the short levers, and springs for operating the same being shown in side elevation in a slightly-raised position.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 indicates the rectangular body of the washing-machine, which is supported by the legs 2. The sides of the body are extended beyoud the end walls, and connecting the same are the cross-pieces 3, which form handles by which the machine may be moved from place to place.

Within the washing-machine is the removable rubbing-surfacee, whichis composed of the side strips 5, connected by the transverse bars 6, which are rounded. This rubbingsurface is placed upon the bottom of the body. A rubbing-surface 7 is provided upon the inner side of each side wall of the body,the same being constructed similarly to the bottom rubbing-surface, with the exception that the connecting-bars are rounded only on one side.

Pivoted near one end, between the sige T e opposite end of this lid or cover is adapted to rest upon the strip 9, which connects the side pieces at that end of the body. This lid or cover is provided with two longitudinally-extending slots 10 near its respective ends,

through which extend the short levers 11. These levers are pivotedbetween'the leafsprings 12, which are attached at their central portions by screws 13 to the upper side of the lid. The free ends of these springs are turned backward to form eyes, through which extend pins 14C, upon which the said levers are pivoted. One of the levers is provided with a handle'l. The inner ends of Vthese levers extend within the body of the washingmachine and are pivoted to the rubber 16. This rubber 16 is composed of the longitudinally-extending strips 17, which are secured to aplurality of transversely-extendin g strips 18, which depend from the said side strips and engage the clothes to be washed. Extending longitudinally through the strips 18 are the rods 19, and the levers are pivoted between these rods, as illustrated.

Upon the outer side of the lid is a handle 20, by means of which the lid may be raised or lowered. An outlet 21 is provided in the end wall of the body near its bottom for the passage therethrough of the water when it is desired to vremove the same from ...the machine. This outlet is provided with a plug or stopper 22, or the same may be provided with a faucet, as will be readily understood.

In operation the clothes are placed within the body of the machine, as `is usual, and the rubber reciprocated by movingthe operating-handle back and forth. Thus the clothes are thoroughly cleansed. As illustrated in Fig. 2, the springs will move upward and lift the ends of the levers through the slots in the lid, according to the amount of clothes within the body, so that the rubber always bears upon the clothes, as will be readily understood.

From the above description it will be understood that I have produced a washing-machine in which the rubber is self-adjusting, according to the clothes within the bodly of the machine, the same always bearing against the clothes.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters l Patent, is-

In a washing-machine,the combination with the body, of a slotted cover therefor, a leaf- In testimony whereof I have signed this spring secured intermediate its ends to said specification in the presence of two subscribooVer, levers pivoted to the respective ends ing Witnesses.

of said spring and depending through said PETER PETRI. slotted cover, and a rubber Within the bodyl /Vitnesses:

to which the opposite ends of the levers are HENRY SCHACHER,

pivoted, substantially as described. JOHN L. KENNER, Jr. 

